Our team

General

Régis Mikelbrencis

General manager

When Regis arrived in Montreal in 2010, he knew that this was going to be quite the adventure. He had created numerous tours in Northern America for his clients as Purchase and Product director back in France, making him very familiar with the region. Thanks to his many years of experience he has also acquired a deep understanding of the tourism market. Not only does he still enable clients to discover a great diversity of Canadian landscapes and cultures, he is actually part of the diversity now. Inspired and Inspiring, he channels the passion of his teams to properly serve his clients.

Direction

Sarah Martinez

Head of group department

With her business and tourism studies finished and her passion for traveling, Sarah quickly understood that she had to settle in Montréal. Here she is now, at the head of the Group Department, charged with group tours of at least 20. As an expert in planning and strategy, her knowledge of the tourism market allows her supervise her team with great efficiency and offer exceptional travels to her clients.

Marie Ravier

Head of Sales department

Born and raised in the French city of Toulouse, Marie and her typical accent have been across the world. But her true calling was North America, and thus she settled in Canada. Whether talking about the lively atmosphere of Miami or the calm majesty of the mighty Rockies, she just knows how to communicate her passion. After several works experiences in France and in North America and backed by a motivated team, Marie brings to the table a deep knowledge of tourism, her quality expectations and her creativity, responding to every project.

Sandra Robszye

Head of FIT Sales department

Sandra excels at giving the right tools to the sales teams so that every client gets the perfect travel he deserves. Her experience in events management also made her an expert in communication. She fell in love with nature and the Canadian way of life after an internship in Montreal. Ever since she settled in this great city, Sandra has been conveying her passion and motivates her teams to offer exceptional and customized trips.

Cécile Bellissard

Head of Think Incentive

A confirmed professional in incentive travel, in 2015 Cécile joined Quebec and its much more marked seasons, attracted by its dynamism and pleiad of activities. Her many experiences working with companies in different countries allow her to fully understand the need for the exceptional, original and sensational, inherent in the organization of such events. Rigorous and meticulous, she puts her entire team in tune with each other to offer exclusive and unique services, created with passion and great professionalism.

Caroline Lavoie

Head of Purchase department

Caroline is a proud Montréal girl, one with a wanderer’s spirit! She traveled the world for years, from remote regions to giant metropolis and lived in the Caribbean’s. She also speaks three languages, which makes her open to new experiences and encounters. After spending 15 years as part of a tour operator, joining the Toundra Team is the professional accomplishment that she is most proud of! Her experience in negotiating, development and customer service allow her to create and produce travels that always exceed the demands of our clients.

Mathilde Linossier

Head of Marketing department

Extracting the delicate aromas of our tours, spreading their exquisite taste, sprinkling them with the spicy ideas of our traveler’s community, Mathilde is our flavor enhancer. She’s been living in Montreal since 2008 and not only does she truly love her adoptive Province, but the entirety of North America as well. She will hit those roads at every chance she gets. She shared this passion as part of a receptive agency and as communication manager for a network of hotels. A growing passion, one that has been brewing for some time…

Managers

Edouard Hebert

Purchase & Quality Manager - Group Department

Once his studies in economics were over, Edouard left France to study tourism in Montreal and settle in Québec. His great tourism experience comes from working in a tourism agency, a receptive company and a cruising company in Canada. Now he puts his competences to good use in Toundra. Calm by nature, his attention to details enables him to never leave anything to chance and to make sure that there won’t be any bad surprise during our clients’ tours.

Mélina Wolter

Sales Manager

From the gastronomic restaurant by your hotel to the trendiest bar in town, from the most iconic excursion to the most astonishing of hikes, Mélina (almost) knows every corner of North America. This deep field experience is of paramount importance when you’re the Travel documents Manager. To create these essentials components of any traveler’s backpack and adapt them to the specificities of their journey, Mélina also relies on her experience as Purchase manager for Toundra and on her studies in communication and tourism.

Guillaume Fouassier

Operations & Quality Manager

To fulfill the wishes of our clients to the letter, to see on the field what our tours guarantee on paper, to offer the best traveling tips is what Guillaume means by the quality of our trips. His studies in hospitality gifted him a deep sense of details that he shares with our team and our partners. His passion for Northern America grew bigger with each adventure in Canada and the American West until he eventually settled in Québec in October 2015. With his dynamic and rigorous team, Guillaume will always do his best to offer top quality trips to his clients.

Emilie Darnaudet

Operations Assistant Manager

To say that Emilie likes to travel would be an understatement. When she was only 14, she had already seen the five continents and was not going to stop anytime soon. Jakarta, Nairobi or Melbourne were not enough to stop her course. However, Montreal and its unique way of life have managed to seduce her enough to hold her for a couple of years. Her passion for the discovery of new cultures and travels naturally drove her to work in tourism. Now she devotes all of her energy to fulfill all of our clients’ wishes.

Fanny Spanu

Production Manager

To produce a trip from the ground up requires two essential qualities: a perfect knowledge of the field to offer itineraries ever closer to the travelers’ desire and a deep attention to details to coordinate the various necessary services. Backed by a team dedicated to the wonders of North America, Fanny has been a product manager for more than 10 years. Ever since her first steps in Québec back in 2002, she knew that she belongs here. Since her arrival in Toundra two years later, she has been picking the very best this continent has to offer, from extraordinary accommodations to unique activities. The exceptional relationship between Fanny and our local partners is one of the key elements of our success, one that enables us to offer the very best service at the very best price.

Supervisors

Bastien Tramier

Team Lead FIT Sales

Cheerful by nature and blessed with a deep sense of interpersonal relationship, Bastien is in direct contact with agencies as to make sure each of their trips is made according to all their requirements. Since the end of his studies in tourism back in France, he has worked for a major airline company in Los Angeles then back in France for one year. This is when he decided to obtain the necessary papers to come work in Montreal, and he fits right in Toundra’s team !

Alexandra Leclerc

Purchase Manager

Born and raised in Montreal, Alexandra enjoyed many trips throughout Canada and thus knows this country like the back of her hand. She joined Toundra, putting her knowledge to good use, after studies in Tourism Management and several working experiences. A natural perfectionist, her sense of details and relationship-building skills allow for the creation of stable long-term relationships with our partners and the negotiation of the most original activities and accommodations to offer her clients.

Aurélie Lemaire

Team Lead FIT Sales

No one really knows how it started but when she was little, Aurélie became a true adventurer, one that has seen every far corner of the world. In the end she settled in Canada, falling in love with its kind and welcoming people. Dedicated, she knows how to put her expertise and experience to the service of her clients.